What would you do if you went head to head with your enemy and won, only to find out there is an even greater enemy to face? Only a few weeks before Serafina and Braeden defeated the man in the black cloak. Serafina has been working so hard with her mother to join the catamount family, only to learn that it is too late. Serafina can freely walk the halls of Biltmore now but she is still not comfortable with this new found freedom. She is struggling... she is too human for the forest and too wild for the house. One night while she is in the forest, she faces a creature that is more powerful and more horrible that she has ever seen. And while she is battling his creatures in the forest he has sent on an accomplice into Biltmore. All of the animals in the Blue Ridge Mountains are in mortal danger, even Serafina's mom and siblings. All of the people that are in Biltmore are in mortal danger, including Braeden and her Pa and the Vanderbilts. Will Serafina and Braeden be able to sniff out the intruder that has worked their way into the magnificent home? Or will this unknown intruder cause a gulf so wide between Braeden and Serafina that it can never be crossed? Will Serafina choose to run and hide in the mountains forever, or will she fight for her home? Read Robert Beatty's exciting new thriller, the second in the Serafina series, set in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and the Biltmore Estates.

The Serafina series is one of my favorite books series EVER! I read these books to my sixth grade book club and each year the kids are begging for more. There is just the right amount of thrilling cliffhangers, scary conjurers, and friendship that can never be broken. Do not miss this second book in the Serafina series!!

​Also, don't miss out on the Serafina and the Twisted Staff PowerPoint that you can purchase through my TpT store. This PowerPoint has 176 slides and asks students comprehensive and thought questions chapter by chapter. It also has pictures of the different rooms described in the book. The students will learn so much about the Biltmore Estates. Click here to go directly to my TpT store or scroll down to access it. If you read this book as a read aloud, this PowerPoint is a must!!

Imagine that you wake up and you have been buried alive? You have no memories of what happened to get you there or how long you have been there. Serafina has battled and defeated the Man in the Black Cloak and she has battled and defeated the Twisted Staff. Now she has to find a way to battle to get out of the ground. After she gets out and heads home to Biltmore Estates, she encounters a storm-creech creature and a sorcerer in a hooded cloak. She has to get home to warn her friends and family, but when she gets there she finds that things are not the same. Braeden is very sad and looks like he has been in a battle himself and almost lost. The other shocker to Serafina is that Braeden is in possession of the black cloak and he decides to put it on. Serafina has to try and figure out what has happened to her world. She is the guardian of Biltmore and she is also the guardian of the Blue Mountains but how can she help defend any part of her world when she feels so lost? With time running out for Serafina, she must find a way to rally her friends and find a way to fight a new, unknown enemy. In this third installment in the Serafina books, this is one that can not be missed!

The Serafina series is one of my favorite books series EVER! I read these books to my sixth grade book club and each year the kids are begging for more. There is just the right amount of thrilling cliffhangers, scary conjurers, and friendship that can never be broken. Do not miss this third book in the Serafina series!!

​Also, don't miss out on the Serafina and the Splintered Heart PowerPoint that you can purchase through my TpT store. This PowerPoint has 175 slides and asks students comprehensive and thought questions chapter by chapter. It also has pictures of the different rooms described in the book. The students will learn so much about the Biltmore Estates. Click here to go directly to my TpT store or scroll down to access it. If you read this book as a read aloud, this PowerPoint is a must!!

Imagine your dad disappeared ten years ago and your mom is too busy with her work to deal with you. This is Emmy's life! On her third birthday her dad went missing and is presumed dead. Her mother writes parenting books and is now starting a reality television show in which she has to go from family to family helping them with their children. Since her mom won't be around she is sending Emmy to a boarding school in England. Emmy is used to moving schools because anytime a school drops a point, she gets pulled out for a better school, but half way around the world? Emmy's first impression of the school is not a good one when she meets her roommate, who had the room to herself until Emmy came along. These two do not hit it off and Emmy is expecting to not be accepted by everyone. She couldn't be more wrong. She very quickly makes best friends with Lola and Jack. These three become inseparable and it's a good thing because mysterious notes about Emmy's father start being left for her about her father. She soon finds out that her dad went to Wellsworth and he has a very dark past at this school. As Emmy and her friends start to investigate a secret order of men things start to become very dangerous. Will Emmy find out the mystery of her dad? Is he dead or alive? Will Emmy survive when the powers higher than her try to stop her investigation? Read this incredible book to find out what happens!!

This books was absolutely amazing! It was full of mystery, suspense, and a friendship that will stop at nothing to help each other. I have mentioned in my blogs before that I am a slow reader. To say that I read this book in a 24 hour period says a lot about it. I could not put it down. The writing was magnificent!! I wanted to go to Wellsworth and become friends with these kids! Towards the end of the book I wanted to finish it so bad to find out how it ends, but at the same time I didn't want the book to end!! I am so in love with this book and I can not wait for the second book to come out!! This is a 2019 book that you can not miss!!

Would you like to be in the business of chasing monsters and spirits? Evangeline is from a long line of haunt huntresses and fighting these demons is in her blood... or so she thinks. Whenever she tries to go off on her own things don't always go as planned and she seems to make things worse. Plus, every haunt huntress gets a familiar, some type of animal that is fiercely loyal, and Evangeline still has not found hers yet. She is beginning to doubt that she even has haunt huntress powers. Then her Gran accepts a job in the big city of New Orleans to help a family whose wife/mom is very sick. It is not long before they realized that Mrs. Midsomer has been bitten by a rougarou, a human that turns into a werewolf-type beast. At the next full moon Mrs. Midsomer will turn into a rougarou and if she makes her first kill, then she can never turn back. But if Gran can kill the alpha rougarou before all of that happens, then she will be released. This task seems impossible when Gran falls, breaks her leg, and is taken into surgery right before the moon is full. Gran's last words before she is knocked out is for Evangeline to run away back to the bayou. This is Evangeline's plan when she realizes that she is not a haunt huntress, but that is not what happens. Does Evangeline really not have any haunt huntress powers? Will Mrs. Midsomer turn into a rougarou and make her first kill? Is there anything that Evangeline do to save Mrs. Midsomer and her son, Julian? Read this high-paced, action-packed, slightly funny about family, friends, and finding yourself.

Imagine that you have to live your life secretly living in the basement of a massively beautiful mansion. Now imagine that you are a twelve-year-old girl whose main job is to be the Biltmore Estate's CRC, or Chief Rat Catcher. Sound like a job you want? Yeah, me neither, but it is the perfect job for Serafina. She lives in the basement of the historical Biltmore Estates with her Pa, hidden away from everyone. No one except her Pa knows that she exists. Her Pa's main job is to work on all the machinery that keeps Biltmore Estates running. Serafina is not like other humans - she see in the darkness, she can move around without making a sound, and because her body and bones are different she can hid in the smallest of spaces. Serafina uses this to her advantage when she is catching rats, she just didn't know that she would have to use it to catch a murder. Someone is taking the children of Biltmore Estates and when the men of Biltmore and the police can't come close to solving the mystery, it is up to Serafina to catch the rat. Serafina, who has never spoken to anyone but her Pa, is forced to befriend the Estate's owner's nephew, Braeden. Together they try to fight this magical demon wearing a black cloak. Can Serafina and Braeden solve the mystery of where the children of Biltmore have gone? Can they bring them back safely? Can they even survive the attacks from the Man in the Black Cloak? Read this fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat mystery to find out.

Serafina and the Black Cloak is a yearly read aloud to my 6th grade book club. When it is time to stop they always moan and groan because they want more. This book brings history alive to students in a mysterious and scary way. Don't miss this first book in Robert Beatty's Serafina trilogy.

Also, don't miss out on the Serafina and the Black Cloak PowerPoint that you can purchase through my TpT store. This PowerPoint has 120 slides and asks students comprehensive and thought questions chapter by chapter. It also has pictures of the different rooms described in the book. The students will learn so much about the Biltmore Estates. Click here to go directly to my TpT store or scroll down to access it. If you read this book as a read aloud, this PowerPoint is a must!!

Serafina and the Black Cloak PowerPoint

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Do you want a fantastic read aloud? This is the book for you!! Serafina and the Black Cloak is a high action, high suspense (maybe a little scary) book. I read this book every year to my 6th graders and they never want me to stop. This book is addictive! Don't miss this one! It is in PowerPoint form. The questions go along with each chapter and the slides have animation so that the answers are not revealed until you click. There are also pictures that go along with the book to show students what various parts of the Biltmore Estate look like. This way they can have a visual as they read the book. The font is Apple Chancery size 28. If you computer does not have this font you may need to adjust the font and size to go along with your software. The background is at transparency 80%. For the preview it looks like there is no transparency. When you download this product if the background is not light enough to read the words you need to lower the transparency.

Would you like to grow up living in the massive, beautiful, historical New York Public Library? If you are a book lover you should say yes! What if I told you it was haunted by the ghost of a man named Big Red? This is exactly where eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler grew up with her two brothers, her mom and her dad. Viviani is a terrific storyteller and adventurer and sometimes both of these things can get her in trouble. One night when her and her best friend, Eve, sneak into her father's workshop deep in the basement they possibly come face to face with a ghost. This is when her father tells her the story of a man who died while building the library. He was up to a bit of mischief when he fell to his death and now he haunts anyone who is mischievous. Viviani has always captured the attention of her classmates with her storytelling, until one day a new girl comes to join their class. Viviani thinks that she could become a new best friend until Merit calls her a liar for telling her stories, and suddenly the class starts to question Viviani. When Viviani invites her to spend the night in the library so that she can photograph the ghost, things go all wrong and the change of the bff status happeing dwindles. With Viviani down in the dumps at least she has the extremely valuable and rare stamp collection on display that she can go look at, that is until one night when it is stolen. Suddenly her dad's job is in jeopardy which means that her family's home is in jeopardy. Viviani has to somehow prove who stole the stamps but can she do it on her on? Can Viviani and her friends sabotage the thief's plan and save the day? Will the ghost of Big Red scare them off? Read this incredible book to find out what happens to Viviani and her crew.

This book was beyond amazing to me. It is every true librarian's dream to live in a library like the New York Public Library. This book is set in the 1900s and brings in so much history. The descriptions of the various rooms in the library is fantastic. This will become a read-aloud in my library and I will make a PowerPoint to go along with this story including pictures. Stay tuned!!! In the meantime, don't miss out on this amazing story of adventure, friendship, and some spell-binding storytelling.​

Imagine that your parents have passed away and you have to live with an aunt and uncle that do not want you, you are poor and you have no friends. That is the life of Elizabeth Somers. So when she comes home from school for Christmas break and there is a note on the door, a bag of clothes, a bus ticket and $3, she is not quite sure what to think. Someone gave her aunt and uncle money to go on a trip and send her to hotel for three weeks. Elizabeth imagines the hotel to be a dump but when she arrives she finds the complete opposite. Winterhouse is an extravagantly luxurious hotel with meals served three times a day, they make their own famous candy, and they have a three-story library. Elizabeth even makes a friend her age, Freddy, who comes to Winterhouse every Christmas break while his parents go on vacation.
Elizabeth is in paradise, but not all is as it seems. The creepy man and woman who stared at her throughout the whole bus trip is staying at Winterhouse for the holiday season. They even bring in a coffin-sized box that they claim has books in it. Then when Elizabeth finds a mysterious book, strange things begin happening. There is a peculiar portrait in the gallery that has code that needs to be deciphered, the book has letters that appear each day (and only Elizabeth can see them), creepy stories of the Falls family, and maybe even a ghost. Can Elizabeth decipher the mysterious code and save Winterhouse, or will evil overtake the majestic hotel?

This book was absolutely incredible. From the very beginning it grabs hold of you and won't let go. It has just the right amount mystery to keep you turning page after page to see what happens next. This is a must read!! I am anxiously awaiting for book 2.

Imagine you are the vicim of bullying not once, not twice, but three times. If that were the case, would you want to go and sit in a room with the people suspected of the bullying you, and to top it off, it is during your spring break? This is exactly what is happening to Theo. Theo is a photographer and when his pictures are on display in the high school gallery, they are vandalized with some not so nice words written on them. Next, his negatives were in the dark room and someone went in and ruined those. Lastly, he had some homemade cameras set up in a classroom and those are destroyed. You would think that Theo would definitely not want to go and sit in a room with the five suspects, the Nerd, the Princess, the Jock, the Weirdo, and the Screw-up, but his favorite teacher asked him to try an experiment to see if they could find out who did this to Theo. Theo has gone to school with these kids most of his life and has labeled and judged each of these kids, yet as the week goes on he soon learns that everything he thought he knew is completely wrong. As Theo actually starts to become friends with each of these kids, does he really want to find out the truth of who the culprit is.

It Wasn't Me is a must read book!! This book will grab you from the start and will not let you put it down until you find out "who-did-it". This book has parts that will make you laugh out loud, will warm your heart, and will shock you. There are times in this book that you want to just go and put your arms around the characters and there are times you just want to go and hang out with them. Do not let this book pass you by. Read It Wasn't Me ​as soon as it comes out!!

What if you were challenged to spend the night locked inside a brand-new, high-tech library? What if you were a “gamer” and loved a challenge? What if it meant that you got to meet the man who created all of the games that you love to play? And what if it meant that you might become famous by appearing in Mr. Lemoncello’s new commercials? Would you do it? Would you do it if you knew you were up against a bully that thought winning was everything, including cheating, bullying and stealing? Well Kyle and his friends take on the challenge and the adventure they go through is extraordinary and the clues and riddles fit together like puzzle. Mr. Lemoncello finds a way to get the children to learn to love the library, reading, and friendship.

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library PowerPoint

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Don't you just love Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library? Your kids will love it also!! As you read, this Google Slide presentation will ask all types of comprehension questions that correlate to the book. The Slide presentation is broken down by chapters and each slide has the fade in animation so that you can ask the questions before showing the answers.